Today my Sager 9860 developed a nasty problem. After a four hour gaming session playing KOTOR2, my system crashed with an IRQ error. I held down the power button and powered back up, and the BIOS startup screen was filled with multi-colored horizontal lines running across the screen. The lines would multiply if I left the computer on for long. The text on the screen was also garbled with symbol characters and static.
I assumed it was a overheating problem with the graphics card as it was pretty warm in my apartment, and it is overclocked using the auto detect settings. I left the computer to cool off for about 10 minutes, but with the same result when I rebooted. Then I left the computer off for a few hours, booted up, and still the screen was garbled. If I let it boot as far as the Windows startup screen the screen gets filled with the colored horizontal lines(1 pixel thick all the way across the screen). I've also tried powering up without peripherals plugged in, and without power plugged into the computer with no results.
Since heat isn't the problem, I think that it's because I only have about 3.5 gigs of free space on my C drive. It could be a problem with Windows not having a big enough page file. Otherwise, my last guess would be that my graphics drivers got messed up or the overclock is the problem. Please help.
I assumed it was a overheating problem with the graphics card as it was pretty warm in my apartment, and it is overclocked using the auto detect settings. I left the computer to cool off for about 10 minutes, but with the same result when I rebooted. Then I left the computer off for a few hours, booted up, and still the screen was garbled. If I let it boot as far as the Windows startup screen the screen gets filled with the colored horizontal lines(1 pixel thick all the way across the screen). I've also tried powering up without peripherals plugged in, and without power plugged into the computer with no results.
Since heat isn't the problem, I think that it's because I only have about 3.5 gigs of free space on my C drive. It could be a problem with Windows not having a big enough page file. Otherwise, my last guess would be that my graphics drivers got messed up or the overclock is the problem. Please help.
